Margie Soudek was proud of her lifetime collection of salt and pepper shakers.

The longtime Kingfisher resident made sure to show them off to visitors, even after she moved to St. Ann’s Retirement Center in Oklahoma City in 2013.

Now, thanks to her filmmaking granddaughter, Margie and that collection more than seven decades’ worth - is being shown off on “the big screen” for thousands of viewers at some of the world’s largest and most prestigious film festivals.

“Margie Soudek’s Salt and Pepper Shakers” is a 12-minute documentary short that was directed by Meredith Moore.

The film was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in January, which Moore attended.

“That was the first time we had even heard it was going to be at a festival,” said Moore’s mother, Jodie (Soudek) McKleroy, who now lives in Oklahoma City.

“We were very proud about that.”

It was later shown at South By Southwest in March.

It’s also been an official selection for the True/False Film Fest and the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, among others.

Now, an Oklahoma City festival will allow local viewers to see it as well.

“Margie Soudek’s Salt and Pepper Shakers” is a part of next weekend’s deadCenter Film Festival.

Two viewings will be shown at the Harkins Theatres in Bricktown.

The first is 5:30 p.m. Friday, June 9, in Auditorium 14.

The second is 9:30 p.m. Saturday, June 10, in Auditorium 13.

(Ed. note: The film festival website at dcff.eventive.org only lists festival passes for sale, though limited individual film passes are expected to be sold on site.)

Though she says she’s already seen the short documentary, Jodie and others plan to be among those watching it on the big screen in Bricktown. “We’re going to get there early and get in line,” she said.

Moore was born to the late Robert Moore - a former longtime science teacher at Kingfisher - and McKleroy in Okarche.

After a short stint in Indiana in the late 1980s, Jodie and Meredith returned to Oklahoma.

Moore eventually graduated from Classen School of Advanced Studies in 2003, then attended the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore, graduating there in 2007.

She is now based out of Baltimore and her work has been screened at Anthology Film Archives, Antimatter Film Festival, Baltimore Museum of Art, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Washington Project for the Arts and The Walters Art Museum.

According to her biography, Moore has been a Saul Zaentz Fellow, a recipient of The Andy Warhol Foundation’s Grit Fund, served as a juror for Athens International Film Festival and a resident artist at Signal Culture.

Along with her film work, Moore has worked professionally in audiovisual archives and has taught in the film and video department at MICA.

Her VFX (visual effects) work can be found in numerous documentaries and music videos.

Moore connected with Margie in Oklahoma City before her passing just over a year ago.

The synopsis for the documentary reads: “An artist and VFX instructor connects with her aging grandmother, Margie, in a documentary short on collecting, artmaking, and obsessiveness as a way to enhance our realities. Margie has been collecting salt and pepper shakers for 73 years -- at 94, her days are spent repeating the same, simple routine. When her granddaughter pays her a visit, the collection, now in the thousands, takes on a new life.

“The film -- part love letter, part documentary, part experiment -- merges the real, the fantastical, and the world of a computer desktop.”